Minced chicken meatballs - this dish goes well with all kinds of cereals, pasta, vegetables, salads, potatoes. For minced meat, it is best to use chicken breast, onion and bread crumb. Season the dish with a sauce: creamy, tomato or sour cream. It is cooked in the oven and in the pan.

Minced meatballs - a classic recipe in the oven

Minced chicken meatballs with gravy are especially tender if you add rice to the minced meat.

Ingredients:

  • chicken - 2 breasts;
  • rice - 1 cup;
  • onion - 3 pcs.;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • allspice - 5 peas;
  • sunflower oil;
  • water - 1 cup;
  • salt;
  • ground black pepper.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse cereals, pour water. Close the container with a lid. Do not mix during cooking.
  2. Wash breasts, dry. To do this, use a paper towel.
  3. Cut into pieces, chop. You can skip through a meat grinder or use a blender.
  4. Peel the onion, cut into pieces, chop.
  5. Mix with chicken.
  6. Cool rice, add to meat. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Wet your hands and knead the stuffing.
  7. Place the pan on the fire. Heat up. Pour in oil.
  8. Form balls of minced meat. Place in a pan. To make it easier to roll the balls, hands should be regularly lowered into a container of water.
  9. Fry meatballs.
  10. Transfer to pan.
  11. Pour boiling water, the balls should be completely covered with a liquid composition.
  12. Grind carrots on a coarse grater. Chop the onion.
  13. Sprinkle meatballs with vegetables.
  14. When boiling add sweet pepper.
  15. Close the lid.
  16. Stew for half an hour.
  17. Add salt and pepper to the gravy.

With tomato sauce

If you want the dish to be aromatic and juicy, cook meatballs in tomato sauce.During cooking, the balls will languish in the gravy, soak well, become tender and tasty.

Ingredients:

  • chicken breast - 4 pcs.;
  • rice - 1 cup;
  • water - 1 cup;
  • a mixture of peppers;
  • tomato paste - 1 cup;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • paprika;
  • carrots - 3 pcs.;
  • parsley - 10 g;
  • onion - 2 pcs.;
  • flour - 2 tbsp. spoons.
  • dill - 10 g;
  • coriander;
  • thyme.

Cooking:

  1. Place the washed rice in a pan. To fill with water. To salt. To cover with a lid. Cook without stirring. The result is a semi-finished product.
  2. Strain off excess moisture. Cool.
  3. Chop the meat. Place in a meat grinder. Twist.
  4. Mix with rice.
  5. Drive eggs.
  6. Spice up. Stir.
  7. Blind balls. Fry in oil.
  8. Peel the carrots. Grate.
  9. Chop the peeled onions.
  10. Pour oil into a pan, heat.
  11. Pour in flour, stir quickly so that there are no lumps.
  12. Fry until golden.
  13. Arrange onions, fry. The vegetable should become almost transparent in color.
  14. Add carrots. Fry until soft.
  15. Pour in tomato paste.
  16. Season with salt and spices.
  17. If you want more gravy, pour the right amount of boiling water.
  18. Transfer the balls into a large skillet and pour the sauce. Quench a quarter of an hour.
  19. Grind greens. Sprinkle on the finished dish.

Baked meatballs in sour cream sauce with herbs

The most common meatball cooking options are in tomato and sour cream sauce. The second option is suitable for the whole family, you can cook not only for adults, but also for children. This dish is prepared from minced meat of any kind, but the most delicate meatballs are obtained from semi-finished chicken. To make the delicacy less caloric, use sour cream with the lowest fat content.

Ingredients:

  • minced chicken - 550 g;
  • butter - 50 g;
  • egg - 1 pc.;
  • butter for sauce - 50 g;
  • onion - 1 pc.;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • tomato paste - 50 ml;
  • rice - 6 tbsp. spoons;
  • salt;
  • pepper;
  • broth - 125 ml;
  • flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • salt in the sauce - 1 teaspoon;
  • parsley;
  • dill;
  • sour cream 240 ml.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse cereals, transfer to pan. Bring rice to half-cooked.
  2. Peel the onion, chop.
  3. Grate peeled carrots on a coarse grater.
  4. Move the vegetables to the pan. Fry until soft.
  5. Dill chop.
  6. Chop parsley.
  7. Mix greens with egg.
  8. Cool the vegetables. Combine with greens.
  9. Stuffing should be placed in a deep container. Add rice, vegetable mixture. To salt. Pour pepper. Pour tomato paste. Mix.
  10. Heat the pan. It must be completely dry. Pour flour. Burn to yellowish color. Cool.
  11. Pour sour cream into the broth. Beat. Use any meat or vegetable broth, you can replace with water.
  12. Pour into flour. Take a whisk, beat, avoiding the formation of lumps.
  13. Roll balls from the mixture for meatballs. Fry on all sides.
  14. Arrange in a form that can withstand high temperatures. Pour the sauce.
  15. Put in the oven.
  16. Bake for half an hour. To get it. Sprinkle with herbs.

Cream in a slow cooker

Every housewife has moments that there is no time to cook. A faithful helper is a slow cooker. It helps to cook faster, preserves healthy vitamins in foods.

Ingredients:

  • minced chicken - 450 g;
  • milk - 110 ml;
  • cheese - 170 g;
  • onion - 2 pcs.;
  • cream - 450 ml;
  • pepper;
  • dried garlic;
  • thyme;
  • white bread - 2 pieces;
  • butter - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
  • salt;
  • marjoram.

Cooking:

  1. Pour water into the bowl, place the bread. Leave for five minutes, do not mix. Squeeze so that almost all moisture comes out.
  2. Peel the onion. Chop into small pieces.
  3. Stir onion and bread with minced meat, chop. You can use any method: grind, meat grinder, blender.
  4. Pour in milk. Sprinkle spices and salt. Mix.
  5. Blind balls. Their size should be no more than five centimeters.
  6. Take the bowl from the appliance. Lubricate with a silicone brush. Lay out the semi-finished products.
  7. Salt cream.
  8. Cheese grate.
  9. Mix cheese and cream. Pour meatballs.
  10. Close the lid.
  11. Set the "Extinguishing" mode. The time is 50 minutes.

Chicken meatballs with mushrooms

For lovers of forest gifts, meatballs with mushrooms are suitable.

Ingredients:

  • minced chicken - 350 g;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • onion - 2 pcs.
  • champignons - 130 g;
  • frozen asparagus beans - 110 g;
  • garlic - 4 cloves;
  • cream - 250 ml;
  • parsley - 20 g;
  • dill - 20 g;
  • cilantro - 50 g.

Cooking:

  1. Peel the garlic, cut into small pieces.
  2. Chop greens.
  3. Peel the carrots.
  4. Remove the husk from the onion, chop.
  5. Stir carrots with onions.
  6. Stir the prepared foods with minced meat.
  7. Roll up balls. So that the stuffing does not stick to your hands, moisten your hands with water.
  8. Cut the mushrooms.
  9. Heat oil in a pan. Fry the mushrooms. Fold the meatballs to them. To fry.
  10. Fall asleep asparagus. Pour in the cream. Sprinkle with salt.
  11. Strain under the lid for 10-15 minutes.

Diet Meatballs for Kids

This dish is dietary, healthy, it is steamed, therefore it is suitable for kids and those who adhere to a healthy lifestyle.

Ingredients:

  • minced chicken - 350 g;
  • egg - 1 pc.;
  • boiled rice - 100 g;
  • flour - 3 tbsp. spoons;
  • greenery;
  • onion - 1 pc.;
  • garlic - 1 clove;
  • salt.

Cooking:

  1. Cook rice by measuring the required amount.
  2. Peel the onion and garlic. Take a finely ground grater. Grate the vegetables.
  3. Add to minced meat.
  4. Mix.
  5. Drive in an egg.
  6. Put the cooled rice. If the mass is liquid, you can add flour or semolina.
  7. If the dish is cooked in the summer, take fresh herbs, chop and add to the minced meat. If the cold season, use dried or frozen weed.
  8. To salt. Mix.
  9. Roll up balls. Put in a container double boiler. Do not forget to pour water at the bottom of the pan. Close the lid. To prevent the balls from sticking together, lay in one layer and grease the container with a layer of oil.
  10. Half an hour to cook each batch. Therefore, calculate the time, start cooking in advance.

Oven baked chicken hedgehogs with rice

This dish turns out delicious if cooked in sour cream sauce. For those who do not like sour cream, you can replace the product with the same amount of fat cream.

Ingredients:

  • rice - 0.5 cups;
  • minced chicken - 550 g;
  • Suluguni cheese - 100 g;
  • egg - 1 pc.;
  • tomato - 2 pcs.
  • sour cream - 550 ml;
  • onion - 1 pc.;
  • pepper;
  • salt.

Cooking:

  1. Cook rice by boiling until half cooked.
  2. Cool and mix with minced meat.
  3. Finely chop the onion, add to the minced meat.
  4. Drive in an egg. Mix all.
  5. During the formation of the hedgehog, add a piece of cheese inside.
  6. Preheat a baking sheet, coat its surface with a silicone brush dipped in vegetable oil. Lay out the semi-finished product.
  7. Put in the oven. Cook until a crust of golden color appears.
  8. Pour the tomatoes over boiling water, chop, fry.
  9. Pour sour cream. Stir.
  10. To salt. Add pepper.
  11. Pour the hedgehogs. Simmer until cooked at a temperature of 190 degrees.

If you want the hedgehogs to be with thorns, add raw rice to the minced meat and immediately pour the sauce. When the cereal is cooked, the rice will come out, you get a real hedgehog.

But in this case, it will take more time to cook.

With creamy mustard sauce

A well-prepared sauce will turn meatballs into a culinary masterpiece. When mustard is added to the sauce, a rich, sweet, spicy taste is obtained.

Ingredients:

  • chicken - 570 g;
  • onion - 3 pcs.;
  • garlic - 3 cloves;
  • dried basil;
  • cilantro - 20 g;
  • boiled rice - 5 tbsp. spoons;
  • black pepper;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • salt;
  • parsley - 20 g;
  • sunflower oil - 6 tsp.

Sauce:

  • mustard with French grains - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
  • black pepper;
  • sunflower oil - 6 teaspoons;
  • salt;
  • water - 125 ml;
  • acute mustard - 2 tsp;
  • sour cream - 200 ml;
  • flour - 1 tsp.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse the meat, dry with a towel, cut into pieces.
  2. Peel and chop the onion.
  3. Peel the garlic.
  4. Place in a meat grinder, scroll.
  5. Cut green leaves.
  6. Add to minced meat.
  7. Sprinkle spices, salt. Stir.
  8. The composition must be recaptured. To do this, take the whole mass in your hands and throw it back into the bowl. Repeat several times.
  9. Beat the egg and place the rice in the minced meat. Mix.
  10. Remove for half an hour in the cold. Cover with a film on top so that a crust does not form.
  11. So that the mass does not stick to the hands, moisten the palms with water. Twist the balls.
  12. Heat oil in a pan. Fry meat to a rosy condition.
  13. Transfer to container and cover with lid to stay warm.
  14. Place oil in a pan, heat until bubbles appear.
  15. Pour sour cream, use a non-fat product. Fry, stirring a minute.
  16. Place mustard and pepper. Cook for three minutes.
  17. Pour water, bring to a boil. Remove from the stove.
  18. If you want a thick sauce, add flour and cook until thick.
  19. Transfer the minced balls to the resulting mass. To cover with a lid. Cook over low heat. It will take about 10 minutes.